said to possess, but in Swinburne’s words, involved a readiness to act to achieve certain good purposes, ‘relying on the belief … that God will do for us what we want or need’.6 So when Catholics insisted that faith alone (in the sense of mere propositional belief) was not sufficient for salvation, they were not necessarily contradicting the Protestant view that faith (in a richer sense that includes a willingness to be obedient) is sufficient. The Protestant concept of faith, while quite different